Meet Jessica González-Rojas (votejgr), a Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly who has put her campaign on hold to focus on community relief efforts in Queen’s Corona, Jackson Heights, Woodside, and East Elmhurst neighborhoods.
, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; the seven-square-mile stretch of the Corona, Jackson Heights, Woodside, and East Elmhurst neighborhoods has been referred to as “the epicenter of the epicenter.” These four densely packed working-class areas, which are 88% people of color and nearly 60% Latino, make up the district in which Jessica González-Rojas is running for New York State Assembly.
“Because I have a long history in the immigrant justice movement, I know that there are so many families that are falling through the cracks right now,” said González-Rojas, who has not only been calling for worker protections and a rent freeze, but has also organized a phone bank to check in on the district’s 124,000 community members, many of whom have found themselves on the front line as members of the service industry. “As much as I’m doing, I wish I could do more,” she added.
This is a moment where we need to really understand the realities of the communities most impacted, and those are realities that I understand and that I’ve been connected to and have been advocating for my entire life. I’m working with the Adhikaar organization to try to get hotels and housing for families that are crammed into really small apartments, where one family member is experiencing symptoms but has been turned away by the hospitals because it’s not bad enough to take the test.
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